Supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams.

synoniem: water.

Roget 348: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle^†, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle^†, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out etc. (egress) 295.    rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle^†.    flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself, disembogue^†.    [Cause a flow] pour; pour out etc. (discharge) 297; shower down, irrigate, drench etc. (wet) 337; spill, splash.    [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up etc. (close) 261; obstruct etc. 706.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 337: be watery etc. adj.; reek.    add water, water, wet; moisten etc. 339; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse^†, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: irrigeren, bevloeien

Supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting.